Man arrested who stabbed his schizophrenic brother in Santiago de Cuba

The police arrested this Monday in Santiago de Cuba a man who stabbed his brother with schizophrenia, who had previously attacked and left their mother badly injured.

Naylet Méndez Garzón, daughter and niece of those involved in the unfortunate event, clarified to the reporter Yosmany Mayeta Labrada the details of the incident, after he published a preliminary version of the events, which occurred in apartment 10 of building U178, in Micro 9, in the José Martí district of the eastern city.

According to Méndez's testimony - made public by the journalist on his Facebook profile - the young woman's uncle, Angel Luis Mendez Fonseca, in the middle of a schizophrenia crisis, hit his mother Mireya Fonseca Sáez, 75 years old.

“What happened was that my uncle beat her up and threw her, that's when broke his head and hip and she can't move, and he told her that if she said anything, he was going to kill her and my father," Méndez said.

The girl's father, Rafael Ernesto Méndez Fonseca, a Community Services worker who also has health problems (he has surgery for glaucoma), went to visit his mother, as he usually does, and found the woman beaten.

“My uncle had a pin kept under the bed waiting for my dad. My dad took it from him and, when he took it from him, he took out the knife and wanted to attack him, and that's when he hurts him in self-defense”, he said.

According to Méndez, his grandmother is in a cast, but “feels better,” while his uncle underwent surgery and is stable at the Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital.

After the events, The young woman's father was arrested by the police and remains “under investigation” in the Micro 9 police unit. “My father is now detained, being the only person my grandmother has and being the breadwinner for the entire family,” he lamented.

The journalist revealed that, according to statements from the family's neighbors and from the young woman herself, ambulances have been called on multiple occasions to take the mentally ill patient to a hospital, but "they have never arrived."

“My dad got tired of taking him to the Clinic and it was always that there was no bed, and They said something serious had to happen to be able to admit him.”Mendez said.

Regarding the unfortunate event, several people agreed that, due to the severe shortage of medicines in Cuba, the increase in mentally ill people who are not correctly medicated has become a new social problem in the country.